[TxMt] Managing change in default bundles

[Soryu]

Hi Trevor,

You have to be careful in this situation, indeed.

# Adding stuff

I have my own bundle where I add all kinds of stuff and try not to  
change the default bundles. A clever naming theme for those item (I  
use All: foo, CSS: Insert Color, Text: Footnote, ..) will make it  
manageable.

# Basic Snippets

I changed all the snippets in the PHP bundle to suit my code  
formatting. Those snippets won't be updated anyway, because they are  
very basic. So, no worries about losing new functionality.

# Changing complexer things

I'm listening on the TextMate dev Mailing List for bundle changes  
(and I'm in the IRC channel most of the time) so I know, what's going  
on. Also if you check out Bundles via subversion (what you don't seem  
to do) you can see, which items changed. If I see any interesting  
stuff there, I will have a look at it, and merge or replace my stuff.  
Otherwise making a duplicate of the particular command in your own  
bundle and changing that, brings you some way. Sure, there will be a  
popup dialog asking you what to execute when triggering the shortcut.  
Unfortunately, changing a bundle item keyboard shortcut will  
duplicate the whole thing. So either you make a new shortcut for your  
own stuff, or live with the dialog.
If you are sure, your adapted command is better in some ways, then  
the default command, be sure to post it here on the list, others  
might find it interesting too and your version could make it into the  
default bundle.

# Bundle Editor

There were some proposals for how to improve the Bundle Editor and  
include a versioning and merging of Default bundles, local changes  
and SVN checkouts. I had wanted to whip something together (just a  
command line script which compares dates and makes diffs, to view and  
make patches), but did not find the time yet.


So. I don't know if that was particularly helpful.

Soryu.